Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-22
DEC0YED FROM HIS HONE.
The Curious Experience Of N. La
Douette.


New York Timssl
4 dapper and bright little Frenchman is
n. Labouette, who has a dress making es-
adjustment in Fifth avenue, in the neigh.
bOrhoOd Of the Union aud LotOs CLUBS.
He thinks he has been marked for depreda-
ton by gaUg OF burglars. The only oc-
cupanls OF the premises after dark are La
nOuclte, his wife, and maid-seryant. Katie
Kelly. who was engaged three months ago
st sn intelligence office. Lanouette ha, an
only child, son, In his sixteenth year,
who for Twelve months has been attending
Or. HoIbrook's Military Academy a. Sing
Sing.
Business kept NJ. Lanouette away from
home Thursday evening, and II was quite
late wben be got back. lie found the fol-
lowing telegram:
"SING SING, May 10, 1887.
" Mr. and Mrs. +. W. Lanouette, 12j Fifh
0Uenue. NelC York:
"BOth come up at once. Willie met with
an accident; IN danger. Conveyance will
be at depot for S.35 train from New York.
"Da. HOLBRO0K."
lie went out and found that the uexl
train nv which he could 20 to Sing Sing
left the city about midnight. His wife
wanted to 90 with HIN, but he persuaded
her to remain at home.
The telegram was sent from Sing Sing by
4 stranger, so far as known. When tall,
slender, neatly. dressed young man. with
small dark moustache, stepped up to the
window Of the telegraph office OF the Sing
Sing station at L. NJ. and handed IN the
message, with the request that 1t be sent
~itbOut delay, George Bell, the operator,
bought il queer that DR.. HolbrooR had not
telephoncd the hessage to the principal
office, as be u>u lily does, or had not writ
ten the dispatch himself. The stranger
raid for The telegram and disappeared.
when Lanouette got of the 1890 A. NJ.
lraiu at Sing Sing be WAS followed by two
strangers. He was disappointed at not
finding anybody 10 meet him or a convey
iuce Of any kind. He inquired at Allen
PO@elis hotel for carriage, and was told
bat il VAS impossible TO get public con-
veyance at that hour. Lanouette appeared
to be so miserable that Lewis Decker, the
clerk Of the hotel, finally said he would go
TO Mr. POwefs stable and get his horse
and buggy. During the discussion two
strangers entered tie place. One OF them
said h. was John Winter, a mere llut OF
Yonkers. lie must, he said, get home by
DAYLIGHT, and offered Decker SIS for the
lIse Of the conveyance after going 10 DIR.
HolbroOk's. The offer was accepted and
Decker went alter tue rig. The Yonkers
merchant tried 10 scrspe an acquaintance
with Lanouette, but the little Frenchman
vas not IN q mood for socilbillty. IL was
after O'Clock when Decker got back with
the horse and buggy. lie evidently had
some mi.eiyings OF dagger on the road, for
be slipped revolver in his pocket before
getting INTO the buggy with the two travel
lefs.
Arriving 81 DIR. Holbrook's school, La
nouette and Winter botn got out, though
there was no reason for Winter leaving his
seut. Lanouettc could not arouse anybody
IN the school. aud decided 20 return 70
Pcwers aud wait until daylight. Winter,
v he actcd In drunken aud offensive mln-
ntr, got hack into the buggy and the horse
was inrred iogaid the hotel. Al Higalind
and Maurice avenues Water Jumped from
the buggy on a pretended excuse and dis
appeared. Decker and the New Yorker
we're glad TO get rid OF him, for they
couldn't understand bis conduit At the
hotel II was found that Frederick KrAuse,